Charlie Owen

Charlie Owen is a businessman residing in Louisville, Kentucky. He earned his bachelor's degree at Princeton University and his law degree at the University of Virginia. Owen worked as a federal prosecutor before Governor of Kentucky Edward T. Breathitt asked him to return to Kentucky to head the state crime commission. In that capacity Owen worked under three different governors (two Democrats, one Republican) and played a role in enacting Kentucky's penal code, medical examiner system, and law enforcement training programs.

Owen then left state government to go into business, working in cable television and real estate development.

Owen first sought elective office in 1994 when he ran for the open seat in Kentucky's Third Congressional District. Owen finished second in the Democratic primary behind state representative Mike Ward by 1,400 votes. This was in spite of have spent $800,000 to Ward's $150,000. Ward went on to win the general election.

In 1998 Owen ran for the United States Senate seat being vacated by Wendell H. Ford and placed second in the Democratic primary, winning 166,472 votes (29.3%). Owen finished behind Congressman Scotty Baesler who won 194,125 votes (34.2%), but ahead of Lieutenant Governor Steve Henry who won 156,576 votes (27.6%).

Charlie Owen (footballer)

Charlie Owen (23 April 1887 – 13 June 1956) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

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Charlie Owen (musician)

Charles Lothian Lloyd "Charlie" Owen is an Australian multi-instrumentalist and producer. He has been a member of The New Christs (1987–90), Louis Tillett and His Cast of Aspersions (1990), Tex, Don and Charlie (1993–95, 2005–06), and Beasts of Bourbon (1996–97, 2003). His solo album, Vertigo and Other Phobias, appeared in 1994 on Red Eye/Polydor.

Owen has produced albums by The Plunderers, Louis Tillett (both solo and in a duo with Owen), Tex Perkins, and Penny Ikinger. As a session player, he has appeared on albums by Tony Buck, Kim Salmon and the Surrealists, Robert Forster, Spencer P. Jones, The Cruel Sea, Steve Prestwich, Conway Savage and Don Walker. In May 2012 Australian Guitar magazine listed Owen in the Top 40 of Australia's best guitarists.

Biography

Charles Lothian Lloyd Owen was raised with two older sisters, both became visual artists. His father was a captain in the navy, he gave Owen preliminary piano and guitar lessons. His mother was a visual artist who tried to teach him to paint "Jesus how embarrassing, when all my friends were off trying to find cigarette butts to smoke and that... painting bloody pictures, but that was just what we did".